Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Rafeyenko (born November 25, 1969) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet,[1] translator, literary and film critic,[2] a member of PEN Ukraine.[1] From 1992 to 2018, was writing in Russian, published his works mostly in Russia and was regarded as a representative of Russian literature. In 2014, having moved to the Kyiv region, learned Ukrainian, started writing his new novel in Ukrainian, and become a full-fledged representative of Ukrainian literature as well.[1] In 2022, he moved to Ternopil escaping active fighting in Kyiv region.[3] Rafeyenko is a representative of magic realism. [4] [5]
Biography
editEducation
editRafeienko was born in Donetsk, Ukraine.[6] He graduated from Donetsk University with a degree in Russian philology and cultural studies.[1]
Career
editVolodymyr Rafeyenko worked as an editor in such Donetsk publishing houses as "BAO" and "Kassiopeia", as a deputy editor in "Mnogotochiye" Magazine. He is an author and complier of popular science and applicative books, detectives.[1]
Bibliography
editProse books
edit- Brief Farewell Book (rus. "Краткая книга прощаний", 2000, ukr. "Мала книжка прощань", 2017)
- Holidays of Wizards (rus. "Каникулы магов", 2005)
- Irretrievable Verbs (rus. "Невозвратные глаголы", 2009)
- Moscow Divertissement (rus. "Московский дивертисмент", 2011, 2013) — a second-place winner of the 2010 Russian Prize in nomination of "Big Prose"
- All thorough the Summer (rus. "Лето напролёт", 2012)
- Decartes' Demon (rus. "Демон Декарта") — winner of the 2012 Russian Prize in nomination of "Big Prose"
- The Length of Days (rus. "Долгота дней" ukr. "Довгі часи", 2017).[1]
- Mondegreen (Songs about Death and Love). (ukr. "Мондегрін: пісні про смерть і любов")[7]
Plays
edit- Mobile Waves of Life (ukr. «Мобільні хвилі буття», 2023)[8]
Collections of poems
edit- Three Days in the Middle of the Week (rus. "Три дня среди недели", 1998)
- Private Sector (rus. "Частный сектор", 2002)
- Help across the Street (rus. "Переводы через дорогу", 2003).[1]
Edited volumes
edit- The War 2022: Diaries, Essays, Poetry. (ukr. "Війна 2022: щоденники, есеї, поезія"[9]
Awards
edit- Moscow Divertissement became a second-place winner in a category "Big Prose" of the Russian Literary Prizes "Russian Prize" (2010)[7]
- Decartes' Demon is a winner of 2012 Russian Prize in nomination of "Big Prose"[1] (2013)[10]
- NOS (Nose) Award, short list for the novel Decartes' Demon (2014)[10]
- Visegrad Eastern Partnership Literary Award for the novel The Length of Days (2017).[11]
- Volodymyr Korolenko Award, National Union of Ukrainian Writers, for the novel Brief Farewell Book (2016)[10]
- National Taras Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine, short list for the novel The Length of Days (2018)[10]
- National Taras Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine, short list for the novel Mondegrin. Songs about Death and Life (2020)[10]
- Angelus Central European Literature Award, short list for the novel Mondegrin. Songs about Death and Life (2021)[10]
Language use
editVolodymyr spoke Russian for 45 years of life. He was born in the east of Ukraine, in Donetsk, then, primarily a Russian-speaking city. His parents spoke Russian to him, the first books he read were in Russian; he had always spoken only Russian and studied in Russian.[12] He learned Ukrainian when he moved to Kyiv in 2014.[1] After Full-scale invasion started, he decided that none of his future books would be published in Russian.[3] He reports that returning to his native Russian language is altogether impossible.[12]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Rafeyenko Volodymyr". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "Volodymyr Rafeyenko". HURI Books.
- ^ a b Терлюк, Ірина (13 April 2022). "До Тернополя переїхав український письменник Володимир Рафєєнко".
- ^ Harding, Luke (2023-10-04). "'Hearing Russian brings me pain': how war has changed Ukrainian literature". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ Rafeyenko, Volodymyr (2023-02-07), "The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad", The Length of Days, Harvard University Press, doi:10.4159/9780674291232/html?lang=en, ISBN 978-0-674-29123-2, retrieved 2024-03-28
- ^ "Владимир Рафеенко". novayapolsha.pl (in Russian).
- ^ a b "Volodymyr Rafeienko: Songs of Death and Love – Ukraine". autorskecteni.cz. Authors' Reading Month. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
- ^ ""Видавництво Анетти Антоненко"". anetta-publishers.com. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "Антологія «Війна 2022»: світ побачать твори українських авторів, написані після 24 лютого". Видавництво Старого Лева (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ a b c d e f ""Видавництво Анетти Антоненко"". anetta-publishers.com. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "In Translation: Voices from Ukraine". The Center for Fiction. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ a b "'After everything I've been through, the Russian language has become meaningless to me'". Le Monde.fr. 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
